Sentences with word «impeachment»

Impeachment is the process of charging a government official, especially the President, with serious wrongdoing or misconduct, potentially leading to their removal from office. Full definition
Ladies and Gentlemen, as can be noted from the motion, contrary to the claims being made by members of the minority and their surrogates in the media that this recall of Parliament is to impeach His Excellency President John Dramani Mahama, nowhere in their motion is there the remotest suggestion of impeachment of the President.
Approve resolution calling for impeachment of Keller by State Rep. Lon Burnam Houston Chronicle May 2, 2009
Asked if the issue of planned impeachment process came up in the meeting, Dogara said, no as it wasn't part of the agenda of the meeting.
New Patriotic Party (NPP) lawmakers in Ghana's Legislature have started collecting signatures of Members in the House in a bold move that insiders say could lead to a push for impeachment proceedings against President John Dramani Mahama.
Have you reviewed the multitude of questions on impeachment on the SE too see if any address your question?
But since Martin's term is going to last for several more years, is there a process for impeachment in Pennsylvania?
«Therefore, any attempt to link our governor with such vicious strategy as impeachment of a loyal deputy for the purpose of disabling him in his governorship ambition can only come from enemies of peace and progress who are bent on causing disaffection between the duo of the governor and his amiable deputy.»
Kurt Seligmann First Message from the Spirit World of the Object May 9 - August 28, 2015 Weinstein Gallery 444 Clementina, San Francisco, CA 94103 Was it the Watergate Hearings in 1973, or the Clinton Impeachment in...
With impeachment proceedings reaching the senate just before Petrobras» annual meeting, the meeting is likely to be yet another boisterous affair.
Mayor of Tamale, Musah Iddrisu Superior, who is facing a possible impeachment by the Assembly has received one of the strongest backings since some assembly members petitioned the Presiding Member for his removal.
Pulitzer prize winner columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. dares the GOP Congressional more radical House members to commence impeachment hearings against Obama.
«To me, the governor has not done anything wrong to us and none of us here is talking about impeachment of the governor at all», he said.
In theory the house could be split in such a way as to prevent articles of impeachment from ever being drafted let alone voted on
The «hurricane» of impeachment threat against some state governors appears to have had a stop in Nasarawa state as members of the state's legislature have begun...
Five other judicial staff who were incriminated in the video and found guilty of the stated misconduct have also been dismissed while some other High Court judges are going through impeachment processes.
Several Republican members of the legislature favor impeaching the governor, but Harrell said he would avoid talking about possible impeachment charges until the State Ethics Commission concludes its recently - launched investigation into Sanford's travel expenses.
Legislative Hearing Set for April 27 on Sharon Keller Impeachment Resolution Texas Moratorium Network Blog April 15, 2009
Since removing a president is a political process, not a legal one, anything can be grounds for impeachment if enough members of Congress say it is.
His resignation came just before a deadline that state Republicans had set for beginning impeachment procedures.
That has typically been the subject of a patent impeachment action.
With the drama unfolding over a possible impeachment inquiry into alleged misconduct by President Clinton, many of the students at the school in Warrenton, Va., have been more attuned than usual to the inner workings of...
Following reports that Mr. Adjaho, has summoned MPs from recess for a one week sitting beginning Thursday, September 1, there have been claims that the Minority, requested the summons in order to initiate impeachment processes against President Mahama.
So let's add that to the Zika virus, the open sewer of a harbour where the sailors and triathletes will compete, the street crime that has already made a victim of an Australian para-athlete and the financial and political chaos that includes a president facing impeachment, many other politicians facing indictments and the declaration of a «state of public calamity» in Rio de Janeiro, with a top state official adding that it is on the verge of «social collapse.»
He also gives updates on Trump impeachment odds.
Dating back to the Clinton administration (when members of the Moral Majority led impeachment efforts in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal), the personal beliefs and moral behavior of the president have mattered significantly.
Impeachment push from Burnam continues as ethics panel awaits response from embattled judge Fort Worth Star Telegram Feb 21, 2009
A Political Science Lecturer at the University of Ghana, Dr. Evans Aggrey Darko, has cautioned that possible impeachment proceedings against some top officials of the Electoral Commission (EC) must not compromise the Commission's mandate.
In a a press statement at the weekend jointly signed by Senate Minority Leader, Senator Godswill Akpabio, Senate Minority Whip, Senator Philip Aduda, and Senate Deputy Minority Whip, Senator Biodun Olujimi, the PDP Senators described the said impeachment plot as «false, baseless and unfounded.»
Used for impeachment purposes, the videos had the potential to directly undermine the credibility of Landolfi's testimony concerning his physical incapacities and the further potential to undermine the reliability of the opinions formed by Landolfi's medical experts to the extent that those opinions relied on Landolfi's description of his physical incapacities.8
Like with many investigations, it didn't start as a Trump / Russia investigation (remember, the Clinton impeachment over consensual sexual contact that he lied about was supposed to be an investigation into a Hillary Clinton land deal from the early 1980s).
Even if a candidate had committed ALL of the above beyond any shadow of a doubt, at this point the thing to do would be for congress to start impeachment hearings after noon on January 20th.
Although there is a precedent of presidential impeachment in South Korea dating from 2004, it was in the end reversed by the court partly because then President Roh Moo - hyun had overwhelming public support.
Members of the Enugu State House of Assembly, Monday morning commenced impeachment proceedings against Governor Sullivan Chime of the State.
«If impeachment does come up, I think it works to the President's benefit, I think it works to his party's benefit,» Bloomberg's Sahil Kapur said.
Missouri: legislator wants impeachment investigation of judge in child sodomy case; judge dismissed charges due to speedy trial violation
In other words, it is up to Congress to decide whether it has followed the Constitutional impeachment procedure — including whether the President is being tried for a «high crime [or] misdemeanor».
South Korean MPs are often quoted as saying that they voted for impeachment under the pressure of popular demand, though opposition parties tend to cast this pressure in a positive light.
Not even the timing's good: why bring up impeachment when Mueller's probe seems likely to do the job for us?
After record number of impeachment attempts against judges in 2011/2012, 2013 efforts down to effectively zero
There will be new procedures setting out actions to include impeachment rights, and specific guidance on joinder of parties and consolidation with other cases (presumably to control the «repeat litigation» under the current NOC Regulations where there may be multiple generics and NOC applications followed by actions).
But 58 Democrats supported the bid to consider impeachment over the objections of House Democratic leaders, who viewed the measure as a distraction in a Republican - controlled Congress.
Part of the papers on the powers of the Senate, as a whole # 65 defends the lodging of the power to try impeachments there.
That is the reason for the caveat that something illegal has been done before impeachment.
The Clinton impeachment bill is here for comparison.
Surveillance that is to be used as impeachment evidence does not have to be produced, (except for particulars if requested), but it does have to be disclosed in Schedule B of a party's Affidavit of Documents.
Washington is still deeply divided on the resignation - impeachment question, but on one thing it is united, namely that the time for self - deception is past and that the time has come, in Ike's first rule, to «get all the facts and all the good counsel you can, and then do what's best for America.»
At PredictIt, a New Zealand - based online market for political bettors, Trump impeachment odds have risen from 5 % to nearly 35 % over the past week.
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